Trump says he will order voter ID requirement for every vote

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Trump says he will order voter ID requirement for every vote

Reuters
Sat, August 30, 2025 at 10:02 PM EDT
1 min read

(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he will issue an executive order to require voter identification from every voter.

"Voter I.D. Must Be Part of Every Single Vote. NO EXCEPTIONS! I Will Be Doing An Executive Order To That End!!!," Trump said on Truth Social.

"Also, No Mail-In Voting, Except For Those That Are Very Ill, And The Far Away Military," he added.

Trump has long questioned the U.S. electoral system and continues to falsely claim that his 2020 loss to Democratic President Joe Biden was the result of widespread fraud. The president and his Republican allies also have made baseless claims about widespread voting by non-citizens, which is illegal and rarely occurs.

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Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-says-order-voter-id-020234202.html

[Srkdqltr]

1. You have to be registered in your polling place to vote already. You get a card.

They check it when you show up to vote. If you vote by mail the workers check your signature against the poll book.
What is he talking about?

[LeftInTX]

2. No voting machines and GOP hand counting them.

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. ...

[Trueblue1968]

4. He is a loser !!!! Rump has no authority to do anything to change elections.

#TrumpIsStupid. #MyHangNailsAreSmarterThanTrump

[Ms. Toad]

5. Fixed the reporting

Earlier in August, Trump pledged to issue an executive order to end the use of mail-in ballots and voting machines ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. However, federal elections are administered at the state level and it is unclear whether the president has the no constitutional power to enact such a measure.

[NJCher]

6. Exactly. Thank you.

Cheebus, is this fool ever going to learn his executive orders have all the power of a limp mushroom?

[EndlessWire]

7. I see this more as

a way in to moderate the polls by the GOP. How else can they do that without having observers at every poll?

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

9. It's going to be an excuse to have armed observers at the polls.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

8. King trump

[byronius]

10. It will not save them.

The GOP is the party of sex predators forever.

[no_hypocrisy]

11. He can't ban absentee ballot voting.

Or can he?

[OC375]

12. He Knows He Can't

This is about setting up doubt of the system to leverage down the road.